ATP Rankings: Rafa, Roger Battle for No. 1

Andy Murray remains top of the rankings but is now just 308 points ahead of Rafael Nadal. Roger Federer’s eighth Wimbledon title pushed him back up to No. 3.

#

Name

Nationality

Points

Tournaments

1.

Murray Andy

United Kingdom

7750

18

2.

Nadal Rafael

Spain

7465

15

3.

Federer Roger

Switzerland

6545

14

4.

Djokovic Novak

Serbia

6325

17

5.

Wawrinka Stan

Switzerland

6140

20

6.

Cilic Marin

Croatia

5075

23

7.

Thiem Dominic

Austria

4030

28

8.

Nishikori Kei

Japan

3740

20

9.

Raonic Milos

Canada

3310

21

10.

Dimitrov Grigor

Bulgaria

3160

24

According to ATP, Federer has no points to defend for the remainder of the season, while Rafa has 370 points and Murray has a whopping 5,460 points to defend following his incredible run at the end of the 2016 season.

Rafa is scheduled to play eight tournaments through the remainder of 2017. If our champ stays healthy and keeps playing good, he should comfortably take the top spot from Murray. Federer will have to do better than Rafa at pretty much every tournament that they contest to become world No.1 again.

Race to London: Rafa is still No. 1 in the 2017 points race with 7,095 points ahead of Roger who has 6,545 points. Nobody else is close.

world no. 1 is not so relevant for 2017. So far it’s been Roger’s year and if Nadal does not win the US Open, it is a 100% Roger’s year, regardless of the ranking. The Muller loss was unneccessary and very costly for the Nadal legacy. He was the only one who could have stopped Federer, although a straight sets defeat would have been probable.